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Măroiu, C., Maricuțoiu, L.P. (2017). Actual Self. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1435-1
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